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DocMSU: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Document-level Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding

26 Dec 2023arXiv:2312.16023archive 2025-07-28

Hang Du, Guoshun Nan, Sicheng Zhang, Binzhu Xie, Junrui Xu, Hehe Fan, Qimei Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, Xudong Jiang

Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding (MSU) has a wide range of applications in the news field such as public opinion analysis and forgery detection. However, existing MSU benchmarks and approaches usually focus on sentence-level MSU. In document-level news, sarcasm clues are sparse or small and are often concealed in long text. Moreover, compared to sentence-level comments like tweets, which mainly focus on only a few trends or hot topics (e.g., sports events), content in the news is considerably diverse. Models created for sentence-level MSU may fail to capture sarcasm clues in document-level news. To fill this gap, we present a comprehensive benchmark for Document-level Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding (DocMSU). Our dataset contains 102,588 pieces of news with text-image pairs, covering 9 diverse topics such as health, business, etc. The proposed large-scale and diverse DocMSU significantly facilitates the research of document-level MSU in real-world scenarios. To take on the new challenges posed by DocMSU, we introduce a fine-grained sarcasm comprehension method to properly align the pixel-level image features with word-level textual features in documents. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, showing that it can serve as a baseline approach to the challenging DocMSU. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/Dulpy/DocMSU.

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